Re: [PATCH] kbuild: clang: fix build failures with sparse check

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Tue Oct 24 2017 - 00:14:20 EST


2017-10-21 6:09 GMT+09:00 David Lin <dtwlin@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> We should avoid using the space character when passing arguments to
> clang, because static code analysis check tool such as sparse may
> misinterpret the arguments followed by spaces as build targets hence
> cause the build to fail.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Lin <dtwlin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Makefile | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 05f95df0a247..c8819d0de907 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -685,11 +685,11 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(stackp-flag)
>
> ifeq ($(cc-name),clang)
> ifneq ($(CROSS_COMPILE),)
> -CLANG_TARGET := -target $(notdir $(CROSS_COMPILE:%-=%))
> +CLANG_TARGET := --target=$(notdir $(CROSS_COMPILE:%-=%))
> GCC_TOOLCHAIN := $(realpath $(dir $(shell which $(LD)))/..)
> endif
> ifneq ($(GCC_TOOLCHAIN),)
> -CLANG_GCC_TC := -gcc-toolchain $(GCC_TOOLCHAIN)
> +CLANG_GCC_TC := --gcc-toolchain=$(GCC_TOOLCHAIN)
> endif
> KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(CLANG_TARGET) $(CLANG_GCC_TC)
> KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(CLANG_TARGET) $(CLANG_GCC_TC)
> --
> 2.15.0.rc0.271.g36b669edcc-goog
>

Applied to linux-kbuild/fixes. Thanks!


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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada